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Vikings News
Snap counts and PFF (collie molester) grades from Sunday, Darnold and the Cashman led the way in grades, the Cashman and VanGinkel have made a big impact on the defense.
Story about the penalties from Sunday’s game, the personal foul on Addison was terrible, but the rest were mostly legit
KOC called the Darnold/Jones fumble “catastrophic“
Jim Souhan of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, (he sucks, I know) says KOC is a legit HC of the year candidate
NFL News
As of right now Houston leads Dallas 20-10, Dallas just kicked a 64 yard field goal, but accepted a personal foul on the play to take points off the board, only to later give the ball up on downs after failing on 4th and 2 from the Houston 7. We’ll see if that play is a deciding factor.
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I’ve had this song stuck in my head the last couple days…
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I’m cleaning out a house, it was a foreclosure. We filled a 30 yard dumpster today. If you don’t know, that’s a REALLY big dumpster.
They’re coming in the morning to take the dumpster & bring me another. We’ll fill it again. Crazy, LOTS of crap in that house & yard. Holy hell.
My wife’s birthday today, she’s older than me for the next 45 days, I don’t plan to let her forget it.
that looks like a shirt chuck would wear, for sure.
that or an afflicted shirt
I figure chucks would prefer doing the ‘rubbing, jerking and pulling’.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
#nokinkshaming
This is happening because Delaware elected the first tranny to congress.
Yep and the Lady Rebs don’t want to have to share a bathroom with ‘it’.
Not much input from NLNVF this week.
I assume he is busy putting in his resume for The DOGE.
I imagine he has some good ideas about where the Gov/Pentagon can make some cuts.
https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/4994973-elon-musk-is-hiring-for-doge-heres-the-type-of-people-he-wants-to-recruit/
Thought maybe he was dealing with hurricane work. But your thought is solid.
I think he’s been at the Falcoholic defending Kirk this week.
Just my guess.
The offense scored 6 points. The defense should have done their job and ran a pick six or held the other team to less than 6.
One of the things I admire about the Democrats, and there isn’t much, they stick together like a band of thieves.
Just look at our Republican Senator teammates. How many do you think will bolt from the Gaetz nomination?
All so typical.
Once TD starts putting pressure on those Senators I expect most to fall in line.
DT ‘Why do you oppose me having my team confirmed’?
Senator ‘He/they are ‘unqualified and have too many enemies’.
DT ‘So ‘all my enemies’ say I am unqualified so by that logic I shouldn’t be President?’
Senator ‘Not exactly what I am saying…. ummm’.
DT ‘They get in there and vote to confirm him/them.’
If you don’t want to be primaried, you better give him his cabinet. Elon already said his PAC is not stopping. They are preparing to primary every Republican who opposes Trump.
He’s already doing that.
Reading in Politco or somewhere, a Republican said Well we have our advise responsibility and went on to say if the House won’t provide the Ethics Report, they will subpeona the young lady Gaetz was suppose to have had sex with. That’s a Republican – believe a guy from SD or ND (Croyn or something).
And then you have our lady Senators from Alaska and Maine.
This will require a recess appointment.
The ‘incident’ has been ‘under investigation’ for 3 years now.
DOJ could not find anything to prosecute, and they hate Gaetz, so now it is a political football.
They did find text messages from a guy who Gaetz refused to give a job to, who threatened revenge who then was texting with the girl that accused Gaetz. The same guy also admitted to somebody in jail that she was under the assumption she was going to get paid for these accusations.
Everything coming out now is Political Noise,
The DOJ found nothing, Gaetz has denied everything. If prove exists the DOJ didn’t find it.
They will try to Kavenaugh him.
This is Washington.
Not enough to prosecute does not mean innocent in the ethics world of politics.
That said, would bet a fortune if the house ethics report was ‘clean’, it wold already be released and Gaetz wouldn’t have resigned the day before it was to be released.
The report may be embarrassing to Gaetz but the guy was just reelected by 66%.
Gaetz resigned so they could hold a special election and get his replacement in by Trumps swearing in.
Then why are the repubs scrambling. ‘Nothing to prosecute’ will be different from an Ethics Review.
Of course DOJ hate Gaetz, but so do a lot of Republicans for what he did to McCarthy.
Mt guess (from some friends) Gaetz had sex with a young girl – not sure of age, and uses cocaine. Now, no big deal to me, and certainly the way Democrats act (like Clinton), should be no big deal to them.
He may get thru, but this will be a huge mess.
‘so do a lot of Republicans’
I have heard R Senators say ‘I will have to put aside my personal feelings and support the President Elect.
If they can’t do that they they can vote so DT is not an enemy for the next for years.
Either choice works for me.
Enough – will close with this.
Gaetz might be perfect to clean up DOJ, but also believe he is trash and there’s probably more than just a little smoke about all of this. I also have the ass at him for making the Repub Party look like crap in the house over his personal vendetta against McCarthy ( which was over his ethics).
That said, even if he is a total dog, I also believe he’s DT’s pick and all Repub Senators should confirm him and stop all the grand standing they are doing.
One man’s ‘trash’ is another mans ‘treasure’.
I think your personal bias is effecting your judgement on the guy.
But I have watching him in the house since the McCarthy incident and the more I see the more I like him.
We certainly agree on your last point.
‘I also believe he’s DT’s pick and all Repub Senators should confirm him and stop all the grand standing they are doing.’
Some bias for sure and want Trump to excel. And I certainly like (other than McCarty) his performance as a Rep. Think he will also be very good at cleaning up DOJ
My personal bias – for personal matters – is driven some by spending over a decade of business In the Pensacola area.
I did not think very much of McCarthy, and I lived in his District, so that incident did not bother me overly much.
It bothered me simply because it made the Republican’s ability to mange the House look like crap. I am neutral on McCarthy.
When individual members of our party grandstand to make themselves look good to the detriment of the entire party, I’m usually not to big on that.
And also at times, my conservative values ( the personal behavior stuff) get in the way of good politics.
I think Johnson is better than McCarthy was. If they had to go thru that to get pass ‘McCarthy the Bureaucrat’ it was worth it.
Managing the House is always going to have issues, that is not Gaetz’s fault.
Well then we will disagree. I also like Johnson better. Not the point at all. But, he has done exactly what McCarthy had to do to pass a CR – negotiate with the dems which is why the five all star repubs wanted McCarfthy canned.
Now, managing the house as well as the Senate, is always difficult but that has absolutely nothing to do with Gaetz behavior.
I don’t think it had to do with as much what he did as how he did it.
The Freedom Party complained at the time about how they were being lied to.
Johnson has had to negotiate but he has done a better job of explaining what he was doing and why. McCarthy didn’t feel the need to do as much of that.
The hard liners might not agree with all that Johnson does but but they understand what he is doing and why. It has helped him hold things together better that McCarthy did.
As I said, I LIKE Johnson better.
But the Freedom Group actually hurt us. They wanted cuts to sign CR. We didn’t have votes, actually lost some other Repubs and the CR’s fail. So rather than have the Repubs get blamed for gov’t shutdown. both of our Speakers had to go to the Dems to get the votes to pass – and they extracted some prices. Now, if our Freedom had gone along with both Speakers we would have been better off.
Subaru update….It’s been 10,000 miles since I got it back from its extended stay in the garage where they basically replaced everything except the motor.
However, it appears that they did not replace the catalytic converter…dashboard lights are intermittently flashing which would indicate the converter is beginning to fail……Shit.
It’s about 4,000 dollars to replace it, I won’t be doing that. I will just drive it with a failing converter as long as I can.
4000 bucks. Can’t you go to some junk yard, find a wrecked Subaru and pick up one for a few hundred buck?
If I could get it done for around 800 I would…For some reason Subaru’s are apparently pretty finicky when it comes to catalytic converters…..used replacements don’t seem to do well.
Believe there is some catalytic converter cleaner fluid for about 20 bucks you could try. Just add to full of tank of gas.
Might give it a try.
Probably worth the try.
Yeah, I know….I am a bad person.
No you’re not.
Ask Greta how many jets she has flown on this past year.
You were told to sell it the second you got it back. Just sayin.
Rubes never listen.
Well, we never listen to GOOD advice anyway….I have followed all sorts of bad advice from this site…like starting Hebert instead of Nix…
Bow, I have been thinking about your advice a lot these last few days…I probably could have gotten around 5 grand for it if I would have listened to you.
You have convinced me to stay away from a Subaru. I was considering the Ascent, but I am not sold on the CVT.
Mazda or Honda for me next time. Maybe Toyota if I go used. Not sold on the new engines in the 4Runners.
We were considering getting a new 4-runner to replace my wife’s Sequoia….
What concerns you about the new 4Runner engines?
the 4.0L V-6 that has been a mainstay is damned near indestructible.
They are replacing that in 2025 models with a not as reliable 2.4 4-cyl turbo. Not impressed.
thanks Government for mandating better gas mileage at the expense of reliability.
So, if I found a low mileage 2024 with the engine I want, I would consider that. Otherwise I am looking at a Mazda CX70/90 or a Honda Pilot
I know a couple folks with Subaru Outbacks, and they love them.
My wife and mom have Rav4. I am pretty happy with them. All Toyotas need is gas, oil, tires and brakes.
‘All Toyotas need is gas, oil, tires and brakes.’
My Taco Ma supports this message.
Although no brakes have been required and it is a ’07.
I drive a Pontiac Vibe for my go-to-work car, which is basically a Toyota Matrix. Been driving it for seven years. I forget its exact mileage. Somewhere over 200,000.
The largest repair I have done on it is replacing coil pack.
The lady I bought it from had a second Vibe with 350,000 miles on it. She was still driving it to and from California to see her kids.
I bet you gotta Kamala stickers on it too….
Maybe he can cover it with a ‘Coexist’ sticker now.
Honda & Toyota are the top, I looked at everything when I got a car for the business. It came down to an Accord or a Camry, there was really no compeition.
The continually variable transmissions are nice, but they’re expensive as hell when they go out, and they go out. We have one in my wife’s Acura, I want to get rid of it while the mileage is low & price is high. I don’t want to replace that transmission.
Holy crap, 4 grand for a catalytic converter? That’s insane.
Biden Okays US missiles to be launched into Russia by Ukraine.
2 months before the “peaceful transfer of power”
Sounds fishy to me.
Very fishy indeed. Hope Brandon isn’t starting WW3 just to avoid having to hand power over to Trump.
Well the Ukraine has already fired the six missiles into Russia.
If nothing else it should be interesting.
Wondering if DT is telling Putin to not respond until he can get into office and ‘unf*ck things’.
Hope it doesn’t get too interesting too quickly, I have plans for the weekend.
And yes, let’s hope Trump can unf*ck this mess once he is in office. I haven’t started learning Russian yet.
To clarify, starting learning Russian is not part of the weekend plans.
Dems have been too quiet and agreeable in that regard.
Something’s going to happen.
Hope that isn’t why they aren’t fighting the election much. They figure it is moot because they will all be in their bunkers partying until the radioactivity dies down.
FEMA Director trying to explain to House Oversight Committee that the anti-conservitive bias that we all saw after the hurricanes doesn’t exist.
Shades of Secret Service Director and University Presidents failing once daylight exposes their secrets.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6364903782112
Did you see the Pentagon’s justification for failing their 7th audit in a row?
Don’t know what they said, but they have no idea were the money is going.
This is a very fertile area for Elon to get on.
They are unable to account for approximately $824 billion from the last year. They said something along the lines of, “well if your kid brought their report card home and half of their grades were A’s and half were F’s would you say they were a bad student?”
I read that they have ‘turned the corner’ to understanding what is going on with the billions of $$.
Bunch of hogwash.
They have been saying that since Rumsfeld was SecDoD.
Clueless – and really don’t want to know.
They are using the dark money from the defense budget to fund the moon base that we have been operating since 1976….try to keep up.
Oh, I thought it was area 51.
I’m outdated.
‘moon base ‘
well where else are they going to get their green cheese?
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FTP!
I agree.
In my defense I could not find a better ‘green cheese’ GIF.
So let’s see what the great Repub Oversight Committee will do.
And at the same time, FIMA is asking for another $40 Billion. Want to bet they get it?
Need to fund the DoD without questions since Putin has declared war on NATO thanks to Joe and Zelensky.
Yea, this is a great situation. Next Russia will start firing back tactical Nukes. But heck, all the military contractors love this
Yep. Putin warned what his response would be months ago. They couldn’t just wait until Trump took office. Gotta undermine him before he’s in office and make things so bad that he can’t get out.
They asked why FEMA was asking for more funds while giving a billion to illegals and sitting on $100 of millions still sitting there all the way back to Hurricane Katrina. She just kept saying ‘we are following the orders put in place by Congress’ over and over again.
This committee would have been far more effective if they had waited until the new Congress is in place. They could then have brought in a Trump guy and asked him what he is going to do to fix this crap.
Going forward yes.
Understanding and holding people responsible for the bias requires this hearing.
That is true, but I’d bet you a steak dinner other than a lot of huffing and puffing, no one will be held accountable.
As long as it fuels DT and Elon’s cleanup of these government agencies I will take what I can get from them.
Now me, I’d actually like to see someone go to jail at FEMA for doing crap like this. And this wasn’t just some low level line supervisor.
That line supervisor has stated publicly that it wasn’t a local policy but actually FEMA standard operations.
Just under the guys of “safety”.
Guise?
That’s the one.
Throughout her testimony she kept repeating her two talking points.
‘1 employee who has been terminated’.
‘I have seen nothing that shows it is a FEMA wide issue.’
Looks like the Willful Ignorance Defense to me.
Perhaps the Committee should call in the ‘terminated employee’ to testify. Would guess she knows where the skeletons are.
Good point.
I assume that the investigations would need to talk to her at some point.
They already told FEMA to insure all related e-mails are preserved.
Doubt that will happen, kind of like with Fauci’s cronies.
By the time the Repubs take over, there won’t be a piece of paper in the whole building.
Then the administrators can all follow the papers into the trash bin/shredders.
It’s KIrk Tuesday!!! This tidbit from The Falconholic on X
Kirk Cousins has fumbled a league-leading 11 times in 11 games. His personal record for a season is 13, set back in 2017 in his final year in Washington
I’m now expecting a massive day by the Crybaby.
I hope Flo’s defense tears him a new one, but we tend to make such QBs look like world beaters, historically. Hope that trend can be broken by this season’s Vikings.
Thinking they may need to put a spy on The CryBaby to keep him from scrambling away from the rush.
Ivan Pace Jr should be the spy.. CryBaby is just a tish faster but its pretty close.
I’m thinking our D puts a pounding on them….perhaps the fluke 97-yard TD like on Sunday, or a couple FGs like the Sunday before, but this year’s D is not what trotted out on the field last season.
I’m not sure I would call two long bombs for TD’s would be considered a fluke. One got called back on a questionable penalty.
Defense seems to play down to their opponents.
Ehhh,,,,would still rather see us get beat on a deep pass or two rather than a death by a thousand cuts….
Love the music selection, if you like Fountains of Wayne (or are a song writer) you should check out this
Skoloholics Pick ‘Em League #11
I don’t know what went wrong. I had it on good authority that every pick I made was exactly right. Yet, I somehow ended up in almost last place in the weekly scoring. The whole game is rigged. The refs are in on it. So are all of you! I think it is only fair to warn you that I will be reporting this to the local police. Expect a knock on your door shortly. And when you are locked up behind bars, and you beg me for mercy, I will look upon your plight and say, “No…”
But, hey, at last I’m not at the bottom in the overall standings. Little Fishin’ and Bowbunch are currently lurking in that general area, but they are not that far out of it, all things considered. They are both still in the 800s and have the capacity to ascend, especially in a rigged game where everything is against me to drag me down.
JacksonVike and Freezeface are only three points apart in the 8 & 9 spots. Surely, next week, one of them is going to drop the other and shoot to the top of the rankings, laughing maniacally with the exhilaration of their rapid flight to loftier heights.
Maybe they can even get up to me. I still sit in no man’s land in the 7 position. DE looks miles above me with a 45 point lead over me in number 6. 45 is my favorite number. Maybe that is a good omen. I just like the sound of it. 45. Plus, it is a cool gun caliber, and a neat gun in my vernacular. I always called the 1911 a “forty-five.” That is what my dad called it, so that is what I call it.
Kirk is still good (not sure Atlanta fans agree), I’d rather be fishing and Surly are in a tight race in the 3-5 spots. I believe Kirk is still good has actually dropped down a spot. It just goes to show you can only ride the wave of success for so long before someone hungrier is going to knock you off your pedestal.
That hungry player is NoDakRube. He jumps into second place. Surely, his eyes are glazed right now with all of the glitz and glory that comes with second place. I only hope he can keep the groupies at arm’s length. They are many a champion’s downfall. They don’t actually love you NoDakRube. They just love what you represent.
Bleeding Purple ‘N Gold maintains his stranglehold on the number one position like a new Mariah Carey song. Can he be stopped? Time will tell!
Iconoclast Picks go to me and Freeze for picking Washington over Eagles. I was surprised we were the only ones who did that. I would have guessed that game would have been split pretty evenly. Freeze gets another Iconoclast award for picking Chicago over Detroit, along with JacksonVike. JacksonVike also gets another Iconoclast Award for being the only person to pick NE over the Rams.
Genius Picks go to Surly and Bowbunch for picking Indy over the Jets.
Everyone got Detroit, Minnesota, Miami and Houston correct. Everyone got SF wrong. Surprising result there. I picked SF because I know a Seahawks fan who said they haven’t beat the 49ers in like 123 games. I didn’t bother checking that stat because…that would require homework. What am I? Still in high school? Homework is for losers.
Dog of the Week goes to Kirk for losing 38-6. I finally got a Kirk game right this week. Probably the best strategy is to pick Kirk to win or lose every time. Then you will be right half of the time. If you try to pick individual games, you can easily get off track and pick a W when it is a L and vice versa. That is the curse of a .500 QB. The main reason I saw all that is so I can use this image…
i picked chicago over detroit?? that must have been an accident on my part…
OR
pure genius if chicago won…
Oh yeah, that should be “Green Bay” and not “Detroit,” shouldn’t it?
I blame the fog of rage I am living under because I was cheated. Cheated, I tell you! It makes it hard to think straight.
That is some funny stuff.
FYI, Now that I have ascended to 2nd place, I did post the Skoloholic standings on my office door in hopes of attracting the groupies, so far no luck.
Put your net worth underneath the Skoloholics standings. That will draw them in!
And offer them a Wild Turkey shot….
Both Great ideas….
Although I am not in Gouger’s league, I have been gainfully employed my whole life and have lived a modest lifestyle (I’m cheap), so my net worth is in good shape….that may attract a few groupies, but frankly I am too young for the gold diggers –
We tried the Wild Turkey with coke yesterday….not great but we actually liked that better than mountain dew.
Next you should try Dr. Pepper/Wild Turkey shots.
Only because The Teacher is addicted to Dr Pepper so it will be something new to tease her about.
In college, one of my roommates went on a big Dr. Pepper/Root Beer Schnapps kick and dragged me along. I ended up breaking out in hives from that combination.
Still, we had some fun times, though, while drinking it.
The Teachers response was/is ‘ewww’.
Another combo he got on for awhile was getting a bottle of Tropicana Twister and dumping a bunch of vodka into it.
Not my favorite, but again…we had some fun!
The best part is it was good fun, too. No stupid regrets. Just two drunk guys living their best lives. For example, one time we were sitting on a couch, and I decided I was going to ride a couch cushion down the stairs. It seemed like a good college-party thing to do, so I did it.
Didn’t even wreck anything!
Good times indeed! Are you still friends with that guy?
With my Elderly taste buds all of those mixes seem to sweet for me now. I would much rather just have good straight whiskey on the rocks.
But back in college, yes, it was all of that silly shit.
I only rarely see that guy anymore. I’ve been trying to arrange a get together of that crew for almost a year, and no one’s schedules can match up. Life gets hectic.
Yes, life moves on…none of my college buddies live near me…I manage to have a beer with a few of them every 4 or 5 years.
‘ride a couch cushion down the stairs.’
I did similar things and didn’t even need the alcohol for it.
In high school, my friend and I stopped at Subway to get supper. I ordered a Mountain Dew with sandwich. Don’t know why, probably just a habit. Get out to the car, crack open a Bud Light (pre-woke Bud Light), and at that moment a cop pulled up. I quickly dump the beer into my MD cup, which was about half full, or half empty depending. Stuff the can under the seat. I preceded to drink the glorious mixture.
I have tried this with other light beers, but none tasted as good.
That does not sound good.
Never tried beer and pop. Nowadays, there is probably a beer/Mountain Dew combo-like craft beer somewhere that some guy in a beret orders and praises its fruity undertones.
I have also tried Nordeast IPA with 1919 root beer. You have to get the portions spot on, otherwise it tastes like Redman chew.
Takes me back to my HS days, a 2-liter bottle of Root Beer and Root Beer Schnapps mixed 50/50. Teachers never had a clue.
Right under their noses!
Root Beer Schnapps is a thing?
Day #239 of wondering why McCarthy and Zimmer still have jobs…and why they were even hired in the first place.
Thousands of Texas residents share your thoughts
i’m heading to Dallas in January, so i will do some digging and find out for you
They’ll be fired soon, and not replaced. Jerruh needs to pay for some renovations.
No renovations needed. The players just need to get used to the sun like they do everywhere else in their lives.
Jerruh loves zim, not sure about McCarthy
I personally hope that they keep them both, forever! And Gak!! They have already won FAR too many games this year for my liking!
Jerrah, said he would not remove a coach mid-season. So, he pretty much said once the season is over McC is gone at least.
They’ll promote Zim to HC when they fire McCarthy. It makes no sense, but that’s what’ll happen.
Heated discussions going on about Kirko.
Same stuff. Different Franchise.
Thank GOD !
GM
FTP!
SKOL!
Not ready for winter….
I’m an hour early and you still got here first.
I have no life other than work and taking care of my dogs. Dogs decided to get up very early, so there we go. Already put in 3 hours at work.
My dog got up early as well.
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